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Khoros Communities
Formerly Spredfast + Lithium

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What is Khoros Communities?

Khoros Communities is a fully-featured community platform, built for self-service support, education and collaboration. Organizations can host a vibrant space where customers can find answers, develop expertise, share experiences, and connect with their brand.

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What is Khoros Communities?

Khoros Communities is a fully-featured community platform, built for self-service support, education and collaboration. Organizations can host a vibrant space where customers can find answers, develop expertise, share experiences, and connect with their brand.

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What is Khoros Communities?

Khoros Communities is software to build an enterprise-class online community and scale engagement. Organizations can host a vibrant space where customers can find answers, develop expertise, share experiences, and connect with their brand.


Khoros states they have built and launched over 1,500 brand communities for some of the world’s most recognized brands. With 25+ years of experience, they boast a robust set of customer interaction styles, tools to empower employees to interact and moderate at scale, a platform built for enterprise integration and security, and a dedicated services organization.


Key benefits include:


Expert community management

Nurture large, engaging communities with advanced moderation tools, content management, analytics, and expertise that provide quantifiable business value through customer acquisition, retention, and growth.


Reduced costs by deflecting support calls

Communities deflect expensive calls and boost self-service by creating a central place for customers to ask questions, access knowledge, and get tips from peers and the brand. This one-to many approach can uncover and resolve issues faster.


Boosts loyalty and retention by enhancing the post-sales experience

Customers stay loyal to brands that listen, engage, and care. Communities can be used to foster customer dialogue, and monitor for trends, insights, and problems to fix. Collecting ideas or feedback through the community closes the loop on solutions. Unify knowledge bases, peer tips, training, and other resources that drive adoption, usage, and value.


Drives organic growth

Peer opinion can greatly influence a target audience. A community that connects peers also fuels user-generated content and produces on-demand insights for new products, services, and market ideas. Users can also find, engage, and reward champions who spread positive word-of-mouth. Peer validation can support upsell and cross-sell motions.


Khoros Communities Screenshots

Screenshot of page design templates. These allow for on-the-fly customization and updates without a development team.Screenshot of page overview under the Designer tab. Easily organize content and make changes to page layout to improve the experience for community members.Screenshot of a conversation in the community. Engagement features allow users to collaborate, trouble-shoot and self-serve.Screenshot of Agent Assist in Khoros. This feature allows community moderators to reply to conversations faster and with better responses.Screenshot of the Analytics dashboard. Monitor key metrics to determine how members are interacting in the community.

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Khoros Communities Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesGlobal
Security

Frequently Asked Questions

Khoros Communities is a fully-featured community platform, built for self-service support, education and collaboration. Organizations can host a vibrant space where customers can find answers, develop expertise, share experiences, and connect with their brand.

Higher Logic Thrive, Gainsight Customer Communities, and Higher Logic Vanilla are common alternatives for Khoros Communities.

Reviewers rate Product Scalability highest, with a score of 8.5.

The most common users of Khoros Communities are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

Khoros Communities Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)10%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)90%
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Great tool for community management

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 09, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
3 years of experience
Management of online communities, monitoring comments and streamlining processes
  • Monitoring of online conversations
  • Streamlining process (easy to access and interact)
  • Facilitated the decision making
It is well suited to understand and engage with online communities talking about specific products.
It is less suited to address reputational issues at corporate level.

A robust and mature community platform

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 14, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
12 years of experience
We are using the Khoros community platform for our different divisions. Our main point is to strengthen the connection between the brand and the customers. We are implementing the Khoros communities as a place where the users can find quality information about our products, communicate with other users and also receive professional advise directly from the company employees.
  • Provides a robust platform where users can easily communicate and find information.
  • Very granular permission options.
  • Good gamification features.
  • Good analytics.
Overall the Khoros community is a very mature and well known platform. It is a great tool to strengthen the connection between a brand and its users. It also provides numerous features and tools to the community managers, which allow them to shape the platform to their specific need and requirements.

Khoros Communities: Building Engaging Online Spaces for Connection and Collaboration

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 02, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Khoros Communities
8 years of experience
Khoros Communities offers a platform for building and managing online communities, where we, as an organization, can create a space for customers, employees, or other stakeholders to connect, share information, and engage in discussions. From customer support and product feedback to knowledge sharing and employee collaboration, Khoros Communities can serve various purposes. Internally, it facilitates collaboration among our employees, especially beneficial for remote teams. Additionally, the platform can be utilized for brand advocacy and event-related discussions. When implementing Khoros Communities, we need to tailor it to our specific goals, actively moderate the community, and consider incentives for participation to ensure a positive and engaging environment.
  • Employee Collaboration and Internal Communication
  • Customer Support
  • Product Feedback
  • Knowledge Sharing
Khoros Communities is my go-to when I'm part of a big company with lots of customers who want to help each other. It's awesome for talking about products, giving ideas to make them better, and getting help when I need it. If my team is spread out or we're working from home, Khoros Communities is handy for sharing updates and working together. It's also a good tool for events, helping with planning and discussing what happened. But if my group is small or not very active, or if I just need a simple place to chat without too many extras, Khoros Communities might be more than I need. Plus, I've got to be ready to keep an eye on things to keep the community positive, and it works best when I have a plan to grow and keep the community lively.

Tools that help grow and increase sales.

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 17, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
4 years of experience
Khoros Communities is providing a platform to improve our technical support system and increase the visibility of our brand and products and also reduce administrative costs related to marketing because it has proven that it can help drive our business. Khoros Communities is currently helping our central logistics system to make our entire professional apparatus visible with its robust administration and its ability to allow both our staff and direct clients to give their opinion on any aspect that they consider relevant with complete freedom, always respecting community norms. I believe that Khoros Communities has also allowed us to grow in the quality of our services thanks to the fact that on a daily basis we receive suggestions and complaints from our clients in relation to our services and this has always motivated us to make special changes that help satisfy everyone in a more pleasant way. our clients and enhance growth and sales.
  • Increase in suggestions from our clients to know what we should improve.
  • Reduce technical support costs and incredibly increase sales.
  • It helps to interact with customers and we receive positive and negative reviews and based on their comments we can make changes that increase sales.
Khoros Communities helps the company establish a strong collaboration between our partners, clients and our staff with the objective of improving our products and services by implementing a place of productive interaction that generates suggestions among the entire user community and thus can make changes according to clients request it, I also recommend Khoros Communities for its ability to integrate our central logistics system and help our clients, we already know that Khoros Communities can improve marketing and reduce technical support costs.

Khoros Communities Platform That Actually Works!!

Rating: 7 out of 10
December 12, 2023
PS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
2 years of experience
Khoros Community is where users can interact and share knowledge. which help in important business matters like less support costs Less and effort are generated when customers solve their own problems, the dedicated places, which raises lifetime value. The user can use community input in marketing and product development. Integrate with current systems to provide the effective customer service. Also it Increase consumer interaction across all platforms and manage your social media presence from a single platform.
The most useful is FAQs, guides, and tools for self-service and decreased need on help are hosted. Get insightful consumer feedback to help shape future products and address expanding demands.
  • Communities engagement
  • User review feedback can help in decision making
  • give more substitute as it show the other same level software
The given FAQs, tutorials, and resources for self-service reduced support tools, Loop for Product Feedback gives insightful consumer feedback to help with products to meet growing needs. Businesses could succeed by utilizing the Khoros community as a strategic tool, which educates consumers and facilitates meaningful discussions.

From a user standpoint

Rating: 7 out of 10
December 08, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
1 year of experience
We used Khoros Communities for Social marketing in our organization. It made it easier to measure social campaigns by utilizing this platform versus others we have explored in the past. Khoros Communities made it easier to work with multiple people and multiple teams while building the projects and helps collaborations work more efficiently.
  • Collaboration
  • tracking campaigns/polls
  • easy content approval
I only tried Khoros Communities briefly and from what I remember, it was relatively easy to navigate and use. It helped while collaborating with other departments for social media campaigns. I liked that you can see what each dept is working on. Kohros is probably best suited for larger companies and not smaller ones so much.

Best for Business Connectivity and Scalability

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 07, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
1 year of experience
Khoros Communities helps organizations reduce support costs, boost customer lifetime value, and drive revenue growth. The platform enables high-performing communities for customer engagement, support, and product feedback. With features like moderation, analytics, and integration options, it addresses various business challenges, fostering brand advocacy and knowledge sharing.
  • Scales to enterprise needs, supporting multiple communities and languages. Provides robust spam management and industry-leading privacy and security.
If a quick community setup is essential, the comprehensive nature of Khoros Communities might pose challenges.
Moreover, the extensive features may be overwhelming for smaller organizations with simpler community needs.

Khoros Community for ultimate solution

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 07, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
3 years of experience
Khoros software and khoros community are both doing their great job.we have different kind of community medium like knowledge community, social media community and content community although all the community are not collaborate with each other and not share any information. here choros community doing a great job where we can found all types of community post and easily can communicate with each other.also they have option to modify their platform as per your requirement.
  • collaboration
  • managed platform
  • top most features
the one stop solution for all community related querry.its collaborate with different types of community and help user to provide different kind of information as per their requirements. any corporate can use their template and it provide full freedom to create their own personal community.

Navigating Community Excellence: A Comprehensive Review of Khoros Communities"

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 06, 2023
It helped solve a lot of challenges or issues at our firm namely.
Facilitate sharing best practices, industry insights, and trends.
Enable collaborative discussions for professionals to address challenges and find solutions.
Share experiences and provide advice on common problems etc
Foster collaboration to enhance overall efficiency.
  • Customization and Branding
  • Engagement Tracking
  • Knowledge Base and Search Functionality
  • Responsive Customer Support
These are a few scenarios
Ideal for organizations looking to build brand advocacy programs, as Khoros Communities can empower enthusiasts to become advocates, fostering positive word-of-mouth and engagement.
Suited for creating knowledge-sharing platforms where members can contribute valuable insights, best practices, and industry knowledge, building a comprehensive repository.
Ideal for technology-focused communities where members can discuss innovations, troubleshoot technical challenges, and stay updated on the latest industry development.

A fantastic tool for expanding communities.

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 05, 2023
MK
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
3 years of experience
The Khoros crew was kind, informative, and energetic. I consider them unmatched. The system's emphasis on communal behavior is a plus in my book. Khoros crew values community. The Khoros ethos of community (and care) lets us provide the finest experience.
  • The way positions and responsibilities are handled is excellent.
  • Kindly provide a list of the terms that customers are using.
Khorus meets all our company needs for customer communication, thus I don't think we could have found a better platform. Forums/Communities users will fly through Khoros tools. However, switching to Khoros requires personalized attention. It may not be the best choice if you want an active, updated community but no dedicated staff.

Khoros Communities Helped Us Level Up Our Stagnant Community

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 05, 2023
DV
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
2 years of experience
Business-wise, Khoros Communities has helped us tackle a tackle a number of challenges in our endeavors. While we have been using other platforms for such, Khoros Communities has been our go to hub for gathering feedback, not only from players, but also from other indie developers facing the same issues. First of all, this direct connection with players, whether they were interested in our games or not, helped us refine our various systems. As indie developers, the biggest challenge would be getting our concept out there and building a loyal player base. Connecting with players that would not have heard of us otherwise has also been a rather major advantage, broadening our reach and potential audience. Connecting with fellow developers, on the other hand, has helped us engage in discussions about various topics, including the latest trends in the our favored genres.
  • Receiving feedback about our concepts from unbiased individuals.
  • Sharing Developer Diaries and Behind-the-Scenes work.
  • Problem solving with other fellow developers.
  • Recruiting beta testers.
We would definitely recommend Khoros Communities for any market where customer/audience interaction is a must. This includes any type of content creation, such as Game Development, Music Creation, Visual Entertainment, book/novel writing, etc. As we have some experience with software engineering, more specifically in Smart Home systems, we would also recommend Khoros Communities to those within this market, not as an alternative to platforms such as GitHub, but more as a tool to use concurrently to these. As for scenarios where it would be less appropriate, its hard to think of anything aside form time sensitive work or anything with a heavy focus on internal discussions.

Communities Developer Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 21, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
2 years of experience
I used the Khoros Community Platform for Community Development and Enhancements but there are a few APIs that are currently not available and needs to be there in place, for example, we don't have an API to get bonus points leaderboard or even sort the users with there bonus points. Rest this is one of the best platforms for Communities.
  • Easy operations and API calls management
  • Ranks and Roles are superbly managed
  • Easy to manage the community from Studio and Admin side
Best for big-scale communities with large user bases and data. Expensive for small-scale communities.

Old Lithium user now on Khoros after a decade

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 19, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
4 years of experience
Community Manager support tech forums. Technical forums where our customer reports product issues in our forums to get an answers from contributors/superusers/employees. Community helps to fix issues in 1to many format and source as content for SEO. Community also helps users to learn from each other about product and find best practices.
  • Simple forum Q/A layout
  • Multiple options in Edit section
  • Ready to use Community centric metrics for reporting
Ready to implement and start from day one. Less implementation required to start from zero. Metrics are easy to use and most of them are created specific to community domain.

Khoros end user review.

Rating: 7 out of 10
July 18, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
2 years of experience
Connecting members with various groups and products that are bought and sold. We use this for data research and sentiment of new features and existing ones as well.
  • Good Support team.
  • Simple layout.
  • Easy SEO options.
It works best when there are multiple groups of people that all need to connect in one place and not so well when needing to have private groups that can still be searched via SEO.

A complete look at a customer's journey.

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 18, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
1 year of experience
Provides the analytics to ensure we are providing customers with the support information that may be missing from our website. For example, we take the highest searched terms to determine a possible gap within our support articles. We look at the current content that we are serving our customers, and based on the information given to us by our customers and the deep dives on gaps, we can better the SEO, update/refresh the copy, and pinpoint why customers' issues are not being solved.
  • Provide a list of keywords that customers are using.
  • Indication of the health of the community.
  • Topic management with the use of labels.
I am provided with the necessary tools to complete my tasks for the role I am in. It is integral to understanding customer behavior and where we can improve our online presence to better serves our members by highlighting gaps in our knowledge centers, SEO performance, and getting 360-view of the customer experience.

quick and clean , easy to understand, simple tool to get insights

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 18, 2023
AR
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
1 year of experience
I utilize Khoros Communities to export data from our communities and provide information on the number of views, unique visitors, visits, newly registered users, topics, and replies, as well as the resolution rate.
  • Dashboard that gives immediate insights
  • easy to use filters.
  • easy to understand visuals
1. Good at getting quick insights, 2. found it a bit hard to drill through.

Trusted Community Platform to build your Community

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 18, 2023
RB
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
6 years of experience
At our organization, we utilize Khoros Communities as a customer and partners' community. We have built this community to cater to our customers, partners, and prospects. The Netskope community helps in sharing the influence of industry-based Netskope solutions and the latest events, including webinars and technical workshops that we host for our customers.

Khoros Communities addresses crucial business problems by enhancing customer engagement, streamlining support processes, and gathering actionable insights. By cultivating an active and supportive online community, we have created a platform where customers can connect with each other and our brand, driving satisfaction and loyalty. The self-service resources (Knowledge Base, Blogs and Idea's) and support tools (Slack) available within Khoros Communities have streamlined our operations, reduced the quite fair amount of workload on our teams. Lastly, the platform acts as a valuable source of customer feedback and insights, allowing us to continuously improve our products and services.
  • Content Engagement
  • Gamification and badging
  • Discussion Forums
  • Moderation and User Management - User Management is one the best solution Khoros Communities have
  • Analytics and Reporting
  • Knowledge Base
Well Suited:
  1. Trusted platform to host communities.
  2. Gamification and badeing is good so far
  3. User Management and moderation is good

Less Appropriate:
  • Spend Extra money for basic modules like TKB, Ideas, Events and

A great customer hub connecting all socials in one place

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 18, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
2 years of experience
Khorus helps us massively with communicating with our customers, it provides us a platform to be able to connect with people on all social platforms and track them beautifully, the UI is well made and easy to use and the customer support on the vary rare times that things don't go to plan is top notch. For the rest of my career, every company that I ever work for is getting a recommendation to move over to Khorus when the scope allows.
  • Managing agent performance
  • providing a hub for customer communication
  • management level performance tracking
Khorus works well all around for our business needs, I couldn't ask for a better platform to allow us to connect to our customers. The UI is easy to use and allows for quick and easy tracking of agents workloads and performance as well as allowing our agents to communicate with our client base quickly and efficiently.

Khoros Communities

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 18, 2023
SS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
1 year of experience
To get tips and tricks to improve product forums of our organization which is currently housed on Khoros
  • Connects me with the right voices from your user community
  • Brings webinars and discussions posts that I am interested in
  • This routes me to documentation and resources that I am looking for
Well suited to research before starting a new initiative or preparing for a new integration.

Great product for growing communities

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 17, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
1 year of experience
The community hosts 10 years of content. More than 500B visits since 2013. It's our brand showcase for customer services. Thanks to the community, more than a third of answers are provided without the help of our customer service. And 30% of people found answers that fit their questions.
  • Great account management and support.
  • Overview of the activity / Analytics.
  • Flexibility.
Overall, if you have a good knowledge of Forums/Communities you will be very comfortable with using the Khoros tools. If you're thinking of moving to Khoros / Lithium however, you'll need support for customization (UI/UX, SEO for me).

Khoros Communities Know-how

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 14, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
1 year of experience
Khoros Communities is used to develop communities for partner companies that require a fully functioning community with various functionalities. Khoros Communities has the flexibility of making simple communities in a short time frame to complex communities as per the client's needs. The main business problem it addresses is that the company which starts using communities requires way less manpower in support and feature research etc. as a community will help and even vote for new features or if something is not working properly. So a community can help in troubleshooting, feature addition and if something is just not working right for the company product. It also helps engagement within the community and makes the brand more inclusive to people all over the desired demography. The communities developed under Khoros Communities can handle any number of users, the communities can be made for any language speaker and also has some built-in ranking system i.e. gamification. The boards in the community can be public, registered or private access. So it gives flexibility to show a specific user only the data he is intended to see.
  • Large scale communities.
  • Fast out-of-the-box community creation.
  • Updates from time to time.
  • Easy moderation.
  • Role management.
Khoros is well suited when you have big-sized community with a lot of data and features in mind. It also keeps updates coming so your community remains updated, given you have a team who can work on updates. Which is when it can be less appropriate, if you want always updated community without a dedicated team.

Khoros community is one-stop shop for our customers

Rating: 7 out of 10
July 14, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
1 year of experience
We use the Khoros community as our main customer portal. We have our knowledge base, product advisories/ documentation, and our case portal on Khoros. The case portal is e-bonded to Salesforce which gives our customers to initiate support cases right from the community. We also use it for internal advisories and blog posts.
  • Knowledge Base
  • Case Portal
  • Custom JS Pages
Khoros provide a one-stop-shop for all our customer needs. We have our knowledge base there. We have our customer case portal there where customers can open support cases right from Khoros. We have our product advisories and different documentation that the customer can download. Some scenarios which may be less appropriate are collaboration on knowledge bases and documents in general. Also, navigation can be better.

Customer experience with Khoros Communities

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 13, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
4 years of experience
If we have any doubts about community implementation then we will use this Khoros Communities to clarify my doubts. Khoros Communities is very helpful in submitting new ideas. By using this Khoros Communities we can avoid Khoros support. In recent times, Khoros separated documentation. But as a community user, we are interested to see all information in the community only.
  • It increases the knowledge transfer between community developers.
  • We can easily find latest release notes by using community search.
  • Community admins actively giving answers to our questions.
Multiple team members use Khoros Care daily to help respond to and escalate customer care issues, monitor trends, and determine the overall brand sentiment on social platforms. We are able to track from entry to resolution on our customer care side and have been able to determine any potential problem areas early on thanks to the detailed tagging in this platform.

The heartbeat of Qlik

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 12, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
3 years of experience
We use Khoros for our online user Communities. Users of our software products leverage the Community to collaborate and ask questions on the Qlik products they use. We now have the Community the front end to Qlik Support Cases. In addition to the forums, we use groups for topics, industries as well as local languages. We also are heavy users of event promotions. We view the Qlik Community to be the heartbeat of Qlik.
  • The use of labels allows us to categorize
  • The use of multiple forums in order to narrow down our audience with a company that has multiple products
  • Allows customizations in order for us to make our Community unique
Khoros provides our users the ability to interact with each other 24x7x365 which is important as a global company. This gives our members a way to talk to us anytime that works for them. The use of Kudos and views helps us to know posts and articles that are most popular. Having the banner announcements is a great way for us to inform users of anything that we feel is important to be upfront as well as the use of the pop-up (sticky)footer.

After 10 years of use, I'm not sure that Khoros remains the best community solution

Rating: 5 out of 10
July 11, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Communities
10 years of experience
I'm responsible for 2 Khoros communities. I'm in a customer care department. Our main concern is the lack of echat among members and among the team. We also need a better integration on communuties of our members from Social Networks.
  • Help among members.
  • Participation of meet-up with our top members.
  • Alerting of our top members on potential crisis concerning our products & services.
Forum.
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